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The Potted Psalm

James Broughton, Sidney Peterson

The Potted Psalm
1946|USA|18 min|BW|Live Action

- The voyeur in us, the us in there.

Surrealism/Mystery
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Early Afternoon,
	The guests are starting to wake up:
	A man asks if any's seen his head.
	A woman looks at her shredded bed.
	A man needs to get his leg fed.
	A woman paints her breast red.
	A man looks as if he's dead.
	A woman drinks and finds a head.
Oh!
	Someone must have lost his head,
		to the lady wed on the shredded bed.

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The Games of the Angels
(Les jeux des anges)

Walerian Borowczyk

Les jeux des anges
1964|France|13 min|Col|Animation

- Play to lose, unplay to lose, lose to play.

Structuralism/Surrealism/History
Soylent Green, by Richard Fleischer

A crack was born into a wall,
	It grows up just like others,
		Insecure and small.
	With a sense of unbelonging,
		It starts to fall.
The crack gets bigger and bigger,
	The wall gets smaller and smaller,
		Then one day,
		The crack cracks through the entire wall,
			But it is too late to find out,
	That there is no crack without the wall.

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Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers

Nick Park

The Wrong Trousers
1993|UK|30 min|Col|Animation

- The importance of selecting the right pants.

Mystery/Crime
The Incredibles, by Brad Bird

	
	Unzip that.
	Take it out.
		Unzip that.
		Take it out.
			Unzip that
			(this too?)
			Yes, unzip that too.
			And don't move,
			I'll take it out for you!

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Big Business

Leo McCarey, James Horne

Big Business
1929|USA|19 min|BW|Live Action

- Collateral damage is inevitable.

Absurdism/Comedy
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Another call-in
	Let's see how you are going to handle this
The voice drags on
	Like caterpillar getting drunk
You have the temptation
	To undershadow the frustration
But this is your last call
	Last call to end it all
What else would you do?
	Running a business,
		Or sleep-in at the mall?

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Satiemania

Zdenko Gasparovic

Satiemania
1978|Yugoslavia|14 min|Col|Animation

- Kaleidoscope of faces.

Surrealism/Social Satire
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	Exhale the sensation from the powder,
	It is time to shut up louder.
Let yourself through the mirror,
		To dance on your eyes and tremor.
	Masquerade is eaten into history,
	Masquelee is swiped into mystery.
No one will see you in the mirror,
		As no eyes will be held in terror.
	One needs not a face to see,
	But rather a place to pee,
   From  the  sensation  from  the  powder.

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Lucifer Rising

Kenneth Anger

Lucifer Rising
1972|USA|29 min|Col|Live Action

- History repeats itself.

Faux Documentary/History
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Be born!
	A fire, hot like blood,
		Runs through a century,
			Rising with red flood.
				Top the golden corner,
					A beam of dawn,
					   The eyes are gone,
					  Soaked in moon water,
					 Filled with skin ash,
					And the tide turns,
- Long live the new flesh!

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Your Face

Bill Plympton

Your Face
1987|USA|3 min|Col|Animation

- The barometer of emotions visualized.

Visual Music/Absurdism
The Tune, by Bill Plympton

Your face,
	my ass,
		like a bliss,
			on the piss,
				never to miss,
					a dirty kiss,
						a vis,
						a blitz,
						it fits,
						in the pits,
				like a flower on the sis.

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Breathdeath

Stan Vanderbeek

Breathdeath
1963|USA|15 min|BW|Live Action

- He put a spell on ya!

Avant-garde/Beat/Surrealism
Mystery Train, by Jim Jarmusch

The lady in the elevator,
	drops a stolen breath.
		Oh! 
			Who's gonna pick it up?
		Not me, I'm short on girth.
		Not me, I'm from Perth.
		Not me, I barely lived through birth.
			The man in the fourth,
		Is ready to set forth.
	But who on earth,
		Would be the man of worth?

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Joseph Kilian
(Postava k podpírání)

Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt

Joseph Kilian_Postava k podpirani
1965|Czechoslovakia|38 min|BW|Liv-Ac

- Ask the cat!

Absurdism/Surrealism
Brazil, by Terry Gilliam

A man went to get a stamp,
	For his application to the camp.
	He was told,
		In order to get the stamp,
		One needs to see the man with the hemp.
		But to see the man with the hemp,
		One needs to have the stamp to the camp,
		For the man with the hemp,
		Lives in the center of the camp.
	He thought for a moment,
Then takes off like a champ.

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The Coiling Prankster
(Vykrutasy)

Garri Bardin

The Coiling Prankster
1987|Soviet Union|10 min|Col|Animation

- Life on a wire.

Comedy/Social Satire
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	The second-hand intuition,
		Trumps the tip-toe prohibition,
			In a split second,
				Abandoning all admonition.
	The thin fine line of life,
		Rests upon a distinct knife,
			To cut the lagging foot,
				Loose and falling fifty five.
Ouch!
						Says the Man,
		It's easier to just find a wife.